Beautiful Balloons

Hey Maggie, I have recently been watching the original DS and the revival, as well as reading the Innovation stories (yours included), care to share any insights on what it was like being able to write a DS story and … See More

I tried to post this on my CBGXtra blog, but the Internet Gremlins are chewing on it at the moment, so let me draw your attention to it here: Tonight, the Oscar broadcast will start on ABC at some time … See More

The new series from Vertigo is written by Mike Carey and drawn by Peter Gross; it was announced at the recent New York con, and now photocopies of the first issue (priced at $1 and scheduled to ship May 13) … See More

Yeah, sorry. Seriously, sorry. Now let’s try to get this blog back on a daily basis. Blush … Related Posts:No Related Posts

CBG Senior Editor Maggie Thompson covers a number of topics in her column this month from The Spirit to Edd Cartier to the recenty released Standard Catalog of Comic Books 5th Edition DVD-ROM. You can check out a full-color version … See More

Hi Maggie Going through some old digest sci-fi mags at once of the estates I ahave been handling I found the July 1959 Astounding with a story vanishing Point by CC Beck. Any idea if this is the same CC … See More

Maggie’s Beautiful Balloons column for CBG #1651 takes a look back at the year just past. You can download it here. Related Posts:No Related Posts

Apologies for the lack of recent posts. Memo to self: Do more posts. At any rate, whether I post or not, I check the links on the left as often as I can. And I just stumbled over Neil Gaiman’s … See More

As delivered this morning, when my United Airlines check-in was refused, and I was sent to work things out with USAir, which had arranged the flight: 1 “Don’t give me attitude.” (This was in response to my pointing out that, … See More

Every New Year’s Day in recent years has brought a special fonts sale from “The World’s Greatest Comic Book Fonts!” aka Richard Starkings’ Comicraft service. The deal is simple enough: On New Year’s Day 2000, for example, every font was … See More